The Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF), one of the largest employee federation in France plans to initiate a collaborative process with startups, enterprises and the government of India to strengthen trade ties between the countries.

They plan to bring in a 60 member delegation to facilitate such trade ties with India in the field of Infrastructure, renewable energy, IoT, Machine Learning, waste management, manufacturing and robotics. " With so many startups coming up in India and investment climate changing for the better in the last few years, we believe collaborating will create a lot of jobs here.," says Pierre Gattaz, President, MEDEF.

Gattaz says that they plan to focus on investments opportunities around "Make in India" and "Innovate India". "The data collected by us on the Indian startup ecosystem augers well in terms of the market opportunity for French companies. Moreover, our President Macron visit later in the year will boost the bilateral trade ties."

But there was no clarity on the type of jobs or whether there is a going to be deep dive approach wherein they will work with different states.

The delegation visited India on a three-city tour of New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore to meet various central and state ministries, industry bodies - FICCI, CII, large companies such as Michelin, CapGemini, Larsen & Toubro and leaders in innovation including Team Indus, amongst others. The aim of the delegation is to initiate talks between both countries to fillip both economies, with a special interest in the government’s “Make in India” initiative.

The Mouvement des enterprises de France was established in 1998, have around 750,000 firms which include small and medium enterprises.